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[samsom]

Okay, now that the initial euphoria has passed, I think I can babble on about normal, non-MiL related things.

Not that there's a lot to talk about.


I'm watching Galaxy Quest. Yay! I love this movie. As a satire, for the characters and self-deprecating humor (and a touching death scene). It's got it all. Why haven't I bought this movie? *is introspective*

Yesterday, I went for my first eye exam in about three years. What can I say? I miss glasses. I had a pair, but my then year-old tyke grabbed them off my face as quick as a cobra striking, and threw them across a concrete road. Girl's got a temper :D. To my pleasant surprise, I have really good insurance and am double covered, which meant I could get two pairs of glasses at no cost. I chose two different styles. I can't wait to get them. *wiggles*

I want to look attractively introspective when I'm at work.

Or at the very least I want to stop looking pissed off. People always think I hate them when they first meet me because my face is not....naturally pleasant or smiling. I look like I'm in a bad mood or I want to gut them like a fish (when really, I'm thinking that I have to pee now) and I just know I'm gonna get my ass kicked one day just by looking at the wrong person like that.

I also got my hair trimmed and moderately styled yesterday, for the first time in over a year. It feels so much better and I can run a brush all the way through.

Today I went to the doctor because when I woke up this morning, the area above my left eye swelled up and turned red. Now, I'm not going to suggest that this has anything to do with the MiL's visit, but, um, do the math.

Now I'm watching Terminator Two. Linda Hamilton's awesome in that movie, with her baggage and her bad-ass angst. We just needed to see her on a tequila fueled bender, beatin' the shit out of John (resisting the impulse to remark on the resemblence between EF and VK), and coming on to the Terminator because he's just a toaster, so who the fuck is it gonna hurt anyway, huh?

Okay. Clearly I need some sleep.

But before I go, I wanted to remark to my fellow c/a lovers - 'member some of us were speculating a while back on what had happened to Cordy's parents, since it wasn't ever really touched on with the show? I found a DVD outtake on YouTube about Cordy from s1 of AtS and Kelly Manners plainly says that her family - I'm assuming he means her parents - is in jail.

So now we know.

xlivvielockex, I forgot to answer your question from the other day. Yes, please take your time, but I'd love copies and I'll be happy to supply an address when needed. Thanks for the offer.

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[lostakasha.livejournal.com]

Galaxy Quest is a huge fave of mine. when I saw the scene in Angel where Gunn says "Never give up, never surrender..." I was completely convinced that GQ had taken it from the show -- and not the other way around.

And alan rickman makes me so happy.

Yes, darling, in-laws blur your vision and make you swell, and not in the 'gee you're so swell way' but as in the 'omg I got all swole up' way.

Brava for living through that fresh hell! *smooch*

[samsom.livejournal.com]

I nearly fell off the couch when Gunn started with the "never give up, never surrender" bit. Hee. And yo, he was right, wasn't he?

Alan Rickman just works for me in anything he does, that voice of his is like fuzzies along my spine. I loved that he wasn't afraid to be ridiculous in GQ, and he still managed to make the death scene he was in so touching.

The whole movie is a riot. :D

[damnskippytoo.livejournal.com]

GQ is one of the funniest movies out there and I join you in the introspection for neither do I have said film in my collection.

LOL at your facial expression. My normal expression is pretty much "bored now" or "WTF are you talking about?" so in my youth I think I came across as snobby. I think glasses only adds to that illusion.

Bless Kelly Manners but I rarely take what is said in commentary as fact. They will mostly say anything to fill up the time and not really consider that fans will take what they say as gospel. Not that I care one way or the other - her parents can be in jail and Faith's bitches and I'm fine with it - but I don't take it as *canon* I guess. I'm not going to tell someone they're wrong if they write her parents as living in the Bahamas instead of jail, IOW.

But I *do* take as canon what Mere Smith said in the Birthday commentary about why Angel went crazy with the visions because that's just the truth! ;)

[samsom.livejournal.com]

But I *do* take as canon what Mere Smith said in the Birthday commentary about why Angel went crazy with the visions because that's just the truth! ;)

Who says it's not canon? *cracks knuckles*

I pick what I want as canon, and leave the rest. Thanks to Joss's inability to commit to any one direction, BtVS-AtS canon is like a freaking buffet, anyway. *shrugs* And having a passing acquintance with an incarcerated father, I like the angst possibilites inherent with the prison scenario. God, can you imagine what Harmony would have done with that knowledge? *shudders*

My face....I swear, there are times when I wonder how I manage to get hired. Every person I know has told me when they first met me, they thought I hated them because I never smiled and would look at them as though they were something I got on the bottom of my shoe. One co-worker, Brenda, brought her sister to work one day, and the sister told Brenda I hated her (Brenda) because I gave her a nasty look when she passed my desk. All I did was look up and look down again, during a phone call. Brenda just said "oh, that's just how she looks at everyone." O_o.

[damnskippytoo.livejournal.com]

You realize you must post a picture now because I'm picturing bulldog. But I've seen your daughter and there's nothing dog-like about that cutey so I'm very curious. At the very least draw a self-portrait. :D

[samsom.livejournal.com]

The sprog is a genetic gift from God. I have no idea how I managed to put together a looker like her.

As for what I look like, if I manage a decent pic by this weekend, I'll email you. :D